Hair-dressing apparatus



1933. v. PROTZKY 1,909,894

HAIR DRESSING APPARATUS Filed May 16, 1952 INVENTOR Valerie Profzhy nim Patented May 16, 1933 UNITED STATES VALERIE PROTZKY, OF NEW YORK NTY.

'mm-nnnssme APPARATUS Application filed May 16, 1932. Serial No. 611,616.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in hairdressing apparatus, and has for its object the provision of a device, which isespecially adaptable for use in reconditioning the waves of marcelled or permanently waved hair, when the said hair-waves have partially disappeared or been upset by the growth of new hair.

It happens very often to ladies, who wear the hair in the waved style, that in consequence of rain or foggy weather or excessive perspiration, or for some other reason, some of the hair-waves come off partially; and in such cases it is felt as a great annoyance that the hair cannot be reconditioned at such places. V

The object of this invention is to overcome this inconvenience by providing a hair-dressing device by means of which partly disappearing hair-waves can be reconditioned within a few moments by any person, who has only the average womans skill in handling-a curling-iron.- It is further the object of the invention to provide such kind of a hair-dressing device, which is heated by electricity from the ordinary electric service system, which nowadays is available nearly everywhere for lighting and other purposes, so that the dangers connected with the use of gas-stoves or alcoholburners, and so on, are eliminated completely. i

In the drawing, I have shown a preferred embodiment of my new and improved hairdressing device. In this drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device in half-opened position; v

Figure 2 is a view of the front-end of the device; 1 v v Figure 3 is a vertical cross-section through the middle part of the said device; Figure 4 is a vertical section through the device at the place of the hinge-joint; while Figure 5 is a perspective view of the shield-plate, forming part of the device.

Referring more particularly the drawing, 11 indicates the main body-portion of the hair-dressing device, and has the shape of a hollow metallic cylinder, closed at its top-end 12, and having on its circumference 5 a longitudinal groove 13. The other end of this cylindrical main-body is fastened to a stiff flat bar 14, having two lateral flanges 15 for holding the pivot 16 of a pair of tongs. With the main body-portion 11 cooperates the other body-part of this hairdressing device, which consists of like wisehollow metallic cylinder or rod 17 of a smaller diameter, however, so that the lower part of the said cylinder 17 his app'roxi- 0' mately .into the groove 13 of the'thicker main body part 11. The handle-end of this rod is likewise provided with a stiff bar-like elongation 18, which also has two lateral flanges 19, which are hinged to the aforesaid 21, as shown in dotted lines. 752;: V

The end-portion 12 of the larger cylindrical main part 11 has fastened to it a serrated catch-member 24:, while the end-portion of the thinner hollow metallic rod 17 has been formed with a small depending and hingedly connected tongue 26, also serrated and adapted to register and engage with the catch-member 241, whenthe two parts 11 and .17 are locked together. The

said main body 11 is further provided with v a groove 25. The lower side of the elongation-bar 14 of the main body-part 11 is provided with an ear 27; and a metallic bar, or rod 28 withya heat insulating coatingis hinged to this ear 27, whereas the front-end Suitable, insulated electric resistance of this bar or rod 28 has a small resilient tongue 29, with a button-like end, adapted to catch into the lower groove 25 on the main body-face 12.

A spring-wire 30 is coiled in several windings round the pivot 16, and the two ends 31, 32 of this spring-wire 3O bear against the two inner opposing sides of the metal bars 14 and 18, so as to press the two body-parts 11 and 17 of the hair-dressing tongs towards each other, whereas by finger pressure on the outer sides of the bars 14 and 18 the two parts 11 and 17 may be parted or opened temporarily.

In connection with the two body-parts 11 and 17 of the hair-dressing tongs are further used two sleeves of flannel or any other fabric, which are adapted to be slipped over the two body-parts l1 and 17, respectively.

ed loops 34, provided at the two ends of the shield-plate and adapted to be hooked over small pegs 35, provided at the front face 12 and at the opposite handle end, respectively of the main body-part 11.

From the foregoing description of the different parts of my new and improved hair-waving device, the use and operation of the latter is easily understood to be as follows:

The two flannel-sleeves are dipped into a suitable lotion, as it is ordinarily used in connection with hair-waving operations, and are passed then over the two body-parts 11 and 17 of the hair-dressing tongs, which are held open by finger-pressure on the two bars 14 and 18. Thereupon that particular I part of the hair, or lock, which is to be reconditioned into wave-form, is placed across the groove of the thicker body-part 11, and the thinner body-part 17 is letdown on it by releasing the finger-pressure onthe two bars 14 and 18, while the other fingers of the hand are holding the device at its handle 21'. Thereafter the freeswingable portion of the rod 17 is positioned in the groove with the hair or lock under it, by clamping the resilient tong-member 26 into the upper groove 24 at the front-face 12 of the thicker body-part 11, and the adjacent part of the hair or look is in the same manner clamped between the lower side of the main bodypart and the lower bar or rod 28, whichis clamped with the end of the tong-member 29 into the other lower groove 25 of the main body-face 12. The heat-insulating shieldplate 33 which extends along the one side of the main body 11, serves to protect the scalp of the person from being burned, when the electricity-feeding plug 23 is switched into a live-wire-connection, and in consequence of this the resistance-wires 22 are heating the two members 11 and 17 of the hair-dressing device. The lotion soaked sleeves on thetongmembers are wetting the hair, so that the latter takes better to the wave-form impressed upon it by the two electrically heated tong-members 11 and 12, at'the same time th e said sleeves will pro tect the hair against being burned by too much heat.

After a few moments the plug 23 may be disengaged, the tong-members may be opened again and the hair is released, while the new wave will stay impressed on it.

It is obvious that changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the several parts, as shown, within the scope of the appended claims, withoutde-g parting from. the spirit of the invention, and I do not therefore wish to limit myself to the construction and arrangement shown and described herein.

What I claim as new, and desil to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,

1. In a device of the class described, a pair of hair-dressing-tongs comprising in com bination, two cooperating tong members adapted to be pressed against each other, means for electrically heating the said two members and means for feeding electricity to the said members, means for pressing the latter against each other, or to brace them apart from each other, and further means connected to one of the said tongmembers, and adapted to secure that part of the hair to be dressed, which is adjoining the part of the. hair that is being treated. between the two electrically heated members.

2. In a device of the class described, apair of hair-dressing-tongs comprising a combination, two-cooperating tong-members adapted to be pressed against each other, means for electrically heating the said two members and means for feeding electricity to. the said members, means for pressing the latter against each other, or to brace them apart from each other, and two sleeves of flexible material, adapted to be slipped over the said two tong-members, so as to protect the hair to be dressed from coming into direct contact with the electrically heated tongs.

3. A pair of hair-dressing tongs, com-' prising in combination, an electrically heated main-body-part, having a longitudinalcircumferential groove, another electrically heated body-part adapted to fit partially into the said circumferential groove of the main-body-part, a joint connecting the two body-parts, and means for ressing the two body-parts against each otlier, finger-grips at the two body-parts for bracing the latter.

apart from each other, a bar jointed at its one end to the main-body-part and below the latter, and extending along the said main-body-part, so as to clamp to it the hair i to be dressed, and a heat-insulating shield- VALERIE PROTZKY. 

